Progressive Advocacy

The names of the dead are overwhelming. The victims of wars -- the soldiers and sailors who enlisted and died following orders and a large...

Two big ideas: Rural areas need economic development - and city-driven wealth generated by high education and high services isn’t the righ...

Welcome back to my old blog...I'm restarting this one as an attempt to bring some transparency to my service as a Trustee of the Wilmett...

Some voters are more important than others.  For the presidential race, some voters live in a swing or battleground state like Ohio or Flori...

I don't often get a chance to call in to hear President Obama make a pitch about foreign policy. so I joined a few thousand of my closes...

This is a post for people who are a little worried about Illinois' economy and kind of like the vague idea that we should improve it by ...

This is a moral test. Imagine the last person you saw working a low-wage job: the busboy or the cashier. Imagine you know they don't h...

I'm trying something new: a weekly roundup of interesting progressive policies, insights and ideas. This inaugural post is about climate...

Why should you lobby? Because everyone does. Mayors do. Governors do. Presidents do. The Secretary-General of the United Nations does. Th...

The first step – both the easiest and the hardest – is to fully, fundamentally believe that social improvements are not only possible but p...